A review on rain signal attenuation modeling, analysis and validation techniques: Advances, challenges and future direction

E Alozie, A Abdulkarim, I Abdullahi, AD Usman… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radio waves are attenuated by atmospheric phenomena such as snow, rain, dust, clouds,
and ice, which absorb radio signals. Signal attenuation becomes more severe at extremely …

A survey of rain fade models for earth–space telecommunication links—Taxonomy, methods, and comparative study

MA Samad, FD Diba, DY Choi - Remote sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Satellite communication is a promising transmission technique to implement 5G and beyond
networks. Attenuation due to rain begins at a frequency of 10 GHz in temperate regions …

Rain attenuation prediction using artificial neural network for dynamic rain fade mitigation

MN Ahuna, TJ Afullo, AA Alonge - SAIEE Africa Research …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Atmospheric processes from which rainfall is formed are complex and cannot be accurately
predicted using mathematical or statistical models. In this paper, the backpropagation neural …

A rain estimation model based on microwave signal attenuation measurements in the city of Ioannina, Greece

V Christofilakis, G Tatsis, CJ Lolis… - Meteorological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rain monitoring through signal attenuation has been a significant concern for the scientific
community over the last decade. The lowest L‐, S‐and C‐bands in the microwave spectrum …

Development of one-minute rain-rate and rain-attenuation contour maps for satellite propagation system planning in a subtropical country: South Africa

JS Ojo, PA Owolawi - Advances in Space Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Millimeter and microwave system design at higher frequencies require as input a 1-min rain-
rate cumulative distribution function for estimating the level of degradation that can be …

A physically based method for the conversion of rainfall statistics from long to short integration time

C Capsoni, L Luini - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new physically based methodology for the derivation of the complementary cumulative
distribution function (CCDF) of point rain rate with 1-minute integration time, P (R) 1, from a …

A unified model for the prediction of spatial and temporal rainfall rate statistics

L Luini, C Capsoni - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents MORSE (MOdel for Rainfall Statistics Estimation), a unified model for
the prediction of spatial (PS (R)) and temporal (PT (R)) high-resolution rainfall rate statistics …

30-second and one-minute rainfall rate modelling and conversion for millimetric wave propagation in South Africa

MN Ahuna, TJ Afullo, AA Alonge - SAIEE Africa Research …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The knowledge of adequate rainfall statistics will contribute greatly to the roll-out of
emerging wireless technologies on the platform of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMax …

Variability and trends in rain height retrieved from GPM and implications on rain-induced attenuation over Nigeria

YB Lawal, JS Ojo, SE Falodun - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
To meet the rising demand for uninterrupted high-speed broadband internet services, the
deployment of high-frequency bands for the transmission of radio signals is inevitable …

Rainfall rate prediction based on artificial neural networks for rain fade mitigation over earth-satellite link

MN Ahuna, TJ Afullo, AA Alonge - 2017 IEEE AFRICON, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a model for rainfall rate prediction 30 seconds ahead of time using
an artificial neural network. The resultant predicted rainfall rate can then be used in …